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Cars, guitars and a toddler’s first steps: our top 10 of Frieze 2007

At any rock festival, the surest way to a good time is to embrace the random. With 151 galleries, more than 1,000 artists and an array of Frieze fringe events and commissions, prepare to be blown away by the equivalent of a band you've never heard of - probably from Athens, Guangzhou or Mexico City.

1 The Prince of thieves Richard Prince's hand-built muscle car, a conceptual cousin to the Dukes of Hazzard's General Lee, takes pride of place among this year's commissions. Making his name by "stealing" Woody Allenish jokes and Marlboro advertising imagery, Prince critiques machis-mo, its neuroses and notions of authenticity. His installation is meant to ask what puts the vroom-vroom into the current art boom.

2 Oscar, Oscar Film buffs will be intrigued that Allen (aka Alan) Smithee is lecturing on his prolific filmography and public persona at 4pm on Thursday. The legendary director (for once, the